No. 229.
THE HONGKong governMENT GAZETTE, 3RD NOVEMBER, 1877.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
473
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1877.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 19.)
INDIA-COROMANDEL COAST. Santipilly Light-house.
Notice is hereby given that Santipilly light-house is wrongly marked on the Admiralty Charts; it stands one mile and a half north-eastward of its hitherto assigned position.
[The correct Geographical position, as determined by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, is as follows:—
or N. W. § W., distant 6
Latitude. Longitude....
..18° 4′ 56′′ N. ..83° 37′ 35′′ E.
From the shoalest part of the Santipilly reef, where there is a depth of only 7 feet, the light-house bears N. 52° 30′ W.,
nautic miles, and Santipilly peak bears N. 46° 30′ W., 11 miles.]
[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 1o 15' East in 1877.]
By Direction of the Government of India,
MARINE SURVEY Department, CALCUTTA, 25th September 1877.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Coromandel Coast, No. 71a; and Bay of Bengal, No. 70a: also Admiralty Light list, East Indies, page 12.
[See also Indian Marine Survey Light list for 1877, page 22, and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I., page 466.]
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS..
(No. 20.)
BAY OF BENGAL,-COROMANDEL COAST.
Anchorage Buoys in Madras Roadstead.
The following telegram has been received from the Master Attendant at Madras:--
"Warn vessels not to anchor inside of three buoys moored in six and quarter fathoms in the Madras Roads." Commanders of vessels are therefore warned not to anchor inside the buoys referred to. By Direction of the Government of India,
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 25th September 1877.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Coromandel Coast, No. 71c. and No. 71d; also Indian Marine Survey of Madras Roadstead, Office No. 105 F, and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I., page 458.
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 21.)
BAY OF BENGAL,-COAST OF BURMA.
Light-vessel on Krishna Shoal.
With reference to Notice to Mariners, No. 18 of 1877, issued by this Department, respecting the destruction of Krishna Shoal Light-house:
Information, by telegram, has been received from the Master Attendant at Rangoon, that a light-vessel has been placed four miles eastward of the position of Krishna Shoal Light-house.
The vessel exhibits a fixed white light, elevated 48 feet above the sea level, and is visible from A blue light is burnt every hour, commencing at 7 P.M.
By Direction of the Government of India,
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, Calcutta,
October 1877.
every direction.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (lute I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Gulf of Martaban, No. 823; Bay of Bengal, No. 706; Indian Ocean, No. 748h; also Admiralty Light list, East Indies, &c., page 16, No. 96; Indian Marine Survey Light list, No. 87; Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I., page 498./
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
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